Jerry - Maybe you omitted something when you wrote your email... but does class B have an @Entity annotation?
... I figured we could start with the obvious. :-) Thanks, Rick On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Jerry Carter <[email protected]>wrote: > In OpenJPA 2.0.1, I define a native query which returns the base class for > a group of inherited classes. > > Query query = em.createNativeQuery("...", A.class); > > The inherited classes are simple and have the form: > > @Entity > @Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.JOINED) > @DiscriminatorColumn(name="class_type", > discriminatorType=DiscriminatorType.INTEGER) > public abstract class A { > // Defines an ID and at least one persistent field. > } > > class B extends A implements Serializable { > ... > private String details; > public String getDetails() { return details; } > public void setDetails(String details) { this.details = > details; } > ... > } > > My expectation is that this query should return an instance of B with any > new fields resolved automatically (i.e. details should be non-NULL). > Instead I am getting an instance of B but with only the fields defined by A > being initialized! Am I crazy or is something broken? > > -=- Jerry
